The OFFICIAL who will make it to the 2008 NBA Finals thread.
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lol, you trippin with that comment cuzzo. Detroit is even stronger this season than they were when they beat LA in the finals. You think 2004 Shaq is an easier #5 to gaurd than Pau Gasol this year? Get your mind right. Our bench is twice as deep as it was when we exhausted all of our starters to take the Finals in 2004. Shit, Jason Maxiel alone is performing at Ben Wallace's level at this point in the season. Of course, there will be contenders in the east... but from the All Star break until the beginning of the Playoffs, EVERY major basketball analyst I've seen on ESPN puts Detroit as the team to beat in the east. Not 'the team that might win the east', not 'the team who has the potential to contend in the east after [their] trades'. The team to beat. Promise that if KG, Ray Allen, or Paul Pierce get injured- Boston is DONE.
I want to see PNX/DET in the finals, but SA and/or LA would also be a good series to watch.
I don't see all the hype with the Cleveland deal. They gave up the two best players in that trade.. It was a bad trade for them. Ben Wallace is probably a little worse than Varajeo now and not as good as Gooden. Hughes used to kill the Pistons with his defense on Chauncey Billups, now he's gone. I mean, they have a three point shooter and they got a new point guard who is one of the ten worst starting point guards in the league.
But the pistons are a better team this year than they were in 2004. There starting five is better. Tayshaun, Billups, and Rip are all better players. Sheed knows the team more and Dyess is a far more dangerous offensive player, and the team hasn't had a defensive drop off at all without Wallace because he wasn't the defender that everybody thought he was. He always needs a very good defender next to him to be any good. Plus the bench is by far better... Juan Dixon will probably be the 12th man on this team in the playoffs and we had to cut Flip Murray because there was no room for him. The scary thing is that the bench is really young, too. Afflalo, Stuckey, Hayes, Maxiell and Amir have all been in the league less than five years.
The Lakers are a good team, though, but I think they are being overrated right now. Kobe is by far the best player in the league but Gasol isn't that good. Bynum is going to be awesome, but Bynum and Gasol are going to have to go through an adjustment to playing together when Bynum gets healthy. Its not easy for two players like that to just get on a team and play well together. Look at the Suns with Amare and Shaq.
But looking at it, I see these teams with a legitimate shot at winning the title this year: Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas and maybe Houston and Phoenix. Sorry to Utah, Cleveland, Orlando, Denver, and New Orleans, I don't see your teams having any shot.
But the pistons are a better team this year than they were in 2004. There starting five is better. Tayshaun, Billups, and Rip are all better players. Sheed knows the team more and Dyess is a far more dangerous offensive player, and the team hasn't had a defensive drop off at all without Wallace because he wasn't the defender that everybody thought he was. He always needs a very good defender next to him to be any good. Plus the bench is by far better... Juan Dixon will probably be the 12th man on this team in the playoffs and we had to cut Flip Murray because there was no room for him. The scary thing is that the bench is really young, too. Afflalo, Stuckey, Hayes, Maxiell and Amir have all been in the league less than five years.
The Lakers are a good team, though, but I think they are being overrated right now. Kobe is by far the best player in the league but Gasol isn't that good. Bynum is going to be awesome, but Bynum and Gasol are going to have to go through an adjustment to playing together when Bynum gets healthy. Its not easy for two players like that to just get on a team and play well together. Look at the Suns with Amare and Shaq.
But looking at it, I see these teams with a legitimate shot at winning the title this year: Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas and maybe Houston and Phoenix. Sorry to Utah, Cleveland, Orlando, Denver, and New Orleans, I don't see your teams having any shot.
what about houston with this win streak? if mcgrady stays healthy that team will be a BIG headache to the west, and they just got the high flyer gerald green. they lookin serious and always did with there full lineup. not sayin they makin the finals but i have a feeling they will knock out one of the elite teams that is expected to go in
SUNS VS CAVALIERS.IF THE KINGS AND WARRIORS STEP UP THEIR GAME IT COULD BE KINGS OR WARRIORS VS CAVALIERS OR CELTICS U NEVER KNOW.GO KINGS
I HAVE TO MAKE A CORRECTION WARRIORS ARE DOING REAL GOOD KINGS NEED TO WIN ALOT OF GAMES TO HAVE A CHANCE.SO I GUESS THE KINGS NEED TO STEP IT UP.NOT THE WARRIORS.
I HAVE TO MAKE A CORRECTION WARRIORS ARE DOING REAL GOOD KINGS NEED TO WIN ALOT OF GAMES TO HAVE A CHANCE.SO I GUESS THE KINGS NEED TO STEP IT UP.NOT THE WARRIORS.